A while back, I figured out the TCO of an Audi Q5 vs. an Audi e-Tron, and based on my own usage, it would take several decades of ownership to earn back the additional cost of the e-Tron in gasoline savings.

As we recently learned on Jalopnik, putting back the drain plug or putting lugnuts back on are not actually part of the service but are courtesies that the tech is under no obligation to perform.

It probably would have sucked if they really put it out, knowing GM, but this was my answer, too.

Seems like a waste of time. I’ve heard very recently that bribery is probably not even really a crime.

$32,000 gun cabinet, you say?

I have seen a couple around town, and it is a good looking car. My wife has repeatedly said she’d want one if she had the money, but her job as a public school teacher is unlikely to result in a scenario where it’s a realistic option.

My dad had a white-interiored 911 Turbo in the late 1980s. It wasn’t a problem to keep clean, though he did keep the navy blue floor mats from his previous 911 Turbo.

It wasn’t overly hidden or anything, but my passengers, for whatever reason, wouldn’t think to look in the arm rest on the door for the latch to open the door

This one. I wholeheartedly agree.

My 1988 Toyota Celica has an interior latch set-up similar to that Volvo one. Always had to tell passengers where the handle was so they could let themselves out.

I didn’t have a choice. My wife owned the house before we married. But as HOAs go, ours is not bad at all (I mean, the guy’s broken down Mustang with missing front end sat out in front of his house for several years before they finally said anything about it). 

As far as we know, Beth never knew about Summer’s adventures with the bucket-headed mustache guy. 

My next door neighbor had a 4th Gen Mustang. He came out from work one evening and someone had stolen the headlights, front fascia, etc. He held on to the car without fixing it for a few more years... until the HOA finally got onto his case about it and he sold it for scrap.

Even if it’s post-tax, it’s usually a payroll deduction that come out of your paycheck before you get your grubby hands on it to spend. So the net paycheck rule-of-thumb can still apply. So it still works.

But if you have a 401K, you should be making pre-tax contributions that come out of your paycheck, so 10% of your take home can still be a rule-of-thumb while also saving for retirement.

I guess it depends, too, on where your height is. My wife and I are the same height, but she’s got long legs and a relatively short torso, and I’m the opposite. So when we’re sitting down, I’m a little taller than she is, and in the car, she needs the seat a little further back than I do.

I’m 5'10 at best, and I remember being in high school and having my head against the roof in my step-mother’s XJS. My Dad is maybe 5'7, and he always said his Porsches seemed to be made for someone his height and not much taller.

I’ve owned worse looking vehicles.

How is this not already a thing?

Yes. But it’s also apparently iffy (in the official canon) as to whether Jango Fett was Mandalorian at all.